The golden period of
Indian cinema came
alive with South Asian Cinema Foundation’s ‘A Musical Journey through the Dev Anand Era’, which celebrated the life and work of the late Indian actor.
SACF event saw live performances by the young as well as veteran singers and instrumentalists and a running narrative by the film historian and the Director SACF, Lalit Mohan Joshi in the presence of Dev Anand’s family members and Minister for Culture and the Director Nehru Centre, Sangeeta Bahadur. Produced by SACF in association with the Nehru Centre, the programme presented a historical perspective of Indian Cinema’s Golden Era.
Dev Anand, who died in December last year, and his film company Navketan, brought together and nurtured great icons of the Indian film industry – SD Burman, Sahir Ludhianvi, Guru Dutt, Raj Khosla, Kishore Kumar, Geeta Dutt, Mohammed Rafi, Asha Bhonsle and Lata Mangeshkar. Dev Anand got his first major break in ‘Ziddi’ (1948) and formed his own film company Navketan in 1949.
For the next three decades he produced classics like ‘Baazi’ (1951), ‘Taxi’ ‘Driver’ (1954), ‘CID’ (1956), ‘Hum Dono’ (1961), ‘Guide’ (1965), ‘Jewel Thief’ (1967), ‘Hare Rama Hare Krishna’ (1971) and ‘Des Pardes’ (1978). (PTI)